Festivals
Festival News
ScreenSingapore kicks off with Firestorm
As third-annual event kicks off welcoming 4000 buyers and sellers; organisers announce week-long event for 2014 combined with film festival and awards.
TIFF selects top 10 Canadian films
Enemy, The F-Word, Sarah Prefers To Run make it on to annual list.
Cannes
Ventana Sur boosts Cannes' LatAm presence
The presence of Latin America films in Cannes has grown by 40% since 2009, when Ventana Sur was created by INCAA (Argentina’s film institute) and Marché du Film/Festival de Cannes.
DWKs sets Son remake
DreamWorks Studios confirmed on Monday (30) it has bought remake rights to Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda’s film Like Father, Like Son.
Blue Is The Warmest Colour gets NC-17 rating in US
Sundance Selects to release Abdellatif Kechiche’s 2013 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner with adult rating.
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Film Movement acquires Salvo
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Open Road bites into Chef
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FilmDistrict sets Selfess date
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Drafthouse, Films We Like enter Congress
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Exclusive Media secures Metallica sales
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Selects acquires Polanski’s Venus In Fur
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Fidalgo takes Stranger By The Lake
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FFI reports Cannes sales surge
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Wild Bunch makes first DSK sales
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Drafthouse takes Borgman for US
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Fidalgo announces Cannes pick-ups
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Network acquires Cannes winner Heli
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Lucky Red scores Cannes spree
63rd Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin to honour Ken Loach
Homage to the British filmmakers work to feature at the festival in February, where he will receive an honorary Golden Bear.
Sundance
Sundance London 2014 details revealed
Dates announced, short film competition to return and a new workshop for filmmakers unveiled.
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Millennium buys Countryman
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Redford launches second Sundance London
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Sundance London talks include Barbara Kopple, Jeff Nichols
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Sundance London adds three films
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Sundance London adds UK Spotlight
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Roadside, SPWA take In A World
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Kino Lorber snaps up Computer Chess
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Cohen Media Group takes May In The Summer
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Cinedigm takes North American rights to Narco Cultura
Rotterdam
Dominicus temporarily replaces Wolfson at Rotterdam
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) director Rutger Wolfson is taking a break from his festival duties for at least the next month as he recovers from an autoimmune disease.
AFM
German distribs close AFM deals
EXCLUSIVE: New films by David Cronenberg, Quentin Dupieux and Lone Scherfig are among the titles acquired by German distributors at this year’s AFM.
Venice
Venice confirms 2014 dates
The Venice Film Festival has confirmed its 2014 dates as August 27 to September 6.
Venice selects 12 for filmmaking scheme
A total of 12 projects have been selected for the second edition of Venice filmmaking scheme, the Biennale College - Cinema, a programme for training young filmmakers and producing micro-budget films.
Metrodome gets Miss Violence
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor takes Elle Driver’s provocative, award-winning Venice drama.
Venice best director Pasolini talks new projects
UPDATED & EXCLUSIVE: Beta closes a number of key deals on Venice award-winner Still Life.
Reel Suspects comes to Ruin
Matteo Lovadina’s Reel Suspects has picked up international rights on Venice Orizzonti special jury prize winner Ruin.
Sacro GRA surprise Venice winner
Surprise choice for Golden Lion is Italian documentary. Silver Lion for best director goes to Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence.
Errol Morris’ Rumsfeld doc sells at Venice
EXCLUSIVE: I Wonder Pictures takes Italian rights to Erros Morris documentary.
Toronto
TIFF unveils strategic plan
TIFF director and CEO Piers Handling has announced the organisation’s vision through 2017 in an ambitious document that aims to transform TIFF into the global centre of film.
Hong Kong
30 Euro films get Filmart FSS
European Film Promotion (EFP) deals with increased demand for marketing support at Asia’s film & TV market
Hong Kong to open with Final Fight
Herman Yau’s Ip Man - The Final Fight will open this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (March 17-April 2), while Closed Curtain directed by Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi will close the event.
